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Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.
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All the news and stories surrounding the Toronto Raptors and the NBA covered by Eric Smith and Paul Jones. As heard on Sportsnet 590 The FAN in Toronto.
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A chronological podcast of oral arguments with improved files and meta data. Hosted by Free Law Project through the CourtListener.com initiative. Not an official podcast.
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A Lista Negra é o espazo de Eduardo Herrero reservado ao blues en Radio Galega Música e Radio Galega Podcast. O blues é a máis negra de todas as músicas. Nel mestúranse os cantos de traballo afroamericanos, a propia tradición do continente de orixe dos que chegaron a América como escravos e compoñentes do gospel, a música espiritual que xermolou nos Estados Unidos. Cada programa da Lista Negra está dedicado a un dos grandes deste xénero, desde Howlin’ Wolf a John Lee Hooker, desde Robert Joh ...
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On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson
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In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir…
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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton
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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taught since 1975. He is an historian of early modern Europe, and the author and co-author of over a dozen books, including The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard University Press, 1997), and Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Har…
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"America: Now and Here": A Lecture by Artist Eric Fischl
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Artist Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the Long Island suburbs. His paintings first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life. In 1972 he received a B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts. In February 2012, Fischl spoke to the Institute about his …
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The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929. In 1938 he and his family fled to Brooklyn, where he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush. He studied history and literature at Harvard, and received an MD from NYU. He is a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University, and won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on memory. In addition to his sc…
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James Shapiro spoke at the Institute in 2014 about Shakespeare in America, the anthology he edited for the Library of America. He is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Professor Shapiro is the author of many books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare in a Divided America, which was a finalist f…
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Gary D. Davis pasou á historia co alcume do Reverendo. Non en van, está considerado un dos puntais do gospel blues e un dos artistas que mellor aproveitaron o revival tradicionalista de comezos dos anos 60. Davis tiña todo o necesario: boa voz, boa técnica coa guitarra e unha soberbia actitude interpretativa. No episodio de hoxe a dose galega de bl…
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A historia do blues non sería a mesma sen Eric Patrick Clapton. Curtido en bandas como os Yardbirds ou os Bluesbreakers de John Mayall antes de formar os míticos Cream para despois triunfar tamén como solista, Clapton segue en activo aos seus case 80 anos. É un dos grandes nomes da historia do rock británico, pero a diferenza doutros compatriotas d…
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Blind Lemon Jefferson é unha das figuras máis relevantes da Historia do blues. Foi o primeiro intérprete masculino do xénero que acadou o éxito comercial masivo, nunha época, a década dos anos 20 do século pasado, en que as que máis discos vendían eran mulleres como Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey ou Ida Cox. A diferencia delas, Jefferson compuxo boa parte…
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Slim Harpo é seguramente o maior expoñente do que deu chamarse swamp blues ou blues do pantano, o que agromou nalgunhas das zonas máis inhóspitas de Louisiana. Devoto de Jimmy Reed e da súa economía de medios en busca dunha maior efectividade, Harpo soubo incorporar elementos do zydeco ou do cajun entre outros estilos. A súa é unha proposta repousa…
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Lead Belly foi un tipo duro que pasou moitos anos no cárcere antes de ser descuberto como artista. Pero non é menos certo que era tamén un cantante e guitarrista talentoso, que sabía de memoria centos de cancións. Lead Belly pode considerarse un bluesman metido a folksinger ou á inversa. El é o protagonista nunha nova entrega da Lista Negra en que …
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A Lista Negra chega ao medio cento de programas. 50 horas, 3.000 minutos dedicados ao blues. E para celebralo repasamos a intensa traxectoria dun dos mellores guitarristas de todos os tempos, o irrepetible Stevie Ray Vaughan. Responsable do rexurdimento do Texas blues, Stevie viviu ao límite, morreu novo e deixou un oco que ninguén poderá encher xa…
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William Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton acadou un éxito masivo con Hound Dog antes de que Elvis borrase calquera pegada previa coa súa propia versión do tema escrito polo binomio Leiber/Stoller. Cantante, compositoria e harmonicista á que a sorte lle foi sempre bastante esquiva, Thornton escribiu Ball & Chain, peza coa que Janis Joplin tamén triunfou. Nest…
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Washboard Sam foi un dos bluesmen máis populares de Chicago nos anos inmediatamente posteriores á Segunda Guerra Mundial. Protegido de Big Bill Broonzy, con quen estaba emparentado, Sam triunfou como vocalista e grazas tamén a que cantaba mentres tocaba a táboa de lavar, un instrumento de percusión de reminiscencias africanas, que o blues soubo inc…
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The Rolling Stones son a banda máis grande da historia do rock and roll. Con máis de 60 anos de carreira ás costas e un elepé quentiño do forno no mercado, os Stones sempre reivindicaron a súa ascendencia no blues. E ese é o sustrato que repasamos neste episodio, a conexión de Jagger, Richards e compañía coa música máis honesta que existe. E para r…
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Blind Willie Johnson considerábase un predicador antes que un músico ou un artista. Non é casualidade que este guitarrista extraordinario quizais sexa o maior referente do gospel blues, o subxénero que emparenta a música que nos ocupa coa que se inspira nas Sagradas Escrituras. John son é o progonista dunha nova entrega da Lista Negra en que tamén …
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John Mayall está considerado o gran impulsor do blues rock británico desde mediados dos anos 60 do século pasado ata a actualidade, xa que segue activo aos seus case 90 anos. Á fronte dos Bluesbreakers, a súa banda, Mayall foi o mentor de guitarristas excepcionais como Eric Clapton, Peter Green, fundador de Fleetwood Mac, ou o ex Rolling Stone Mick…
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Otis Rush foi outro deses zurdos marabillosos, curtido na época dourada do blues eléctrico de Chicago. Guitarrista cunha técnica exquisita e cantante dotado dun rexistro de tenor imbatible, Rush tivo unha longa e exitosa traxectoria. Ademais, esta semana escoitamos a estrea do novo álbum da Martins Aneiros Band.…
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Blind Willie McTell foi dos mellores representantes do Piedmont blues. Un mestre da guitarra de 12 cordas, dotado cunha voz fabulosa, que tivo un impacto enorme nos bluesmen da segunda metade do século XX, malia que non acadou nunca o éxito comercial. En palabras de Bob Dylan, "ninguén é quen de cantar o blues como Blimnd Willie McTell"... No progr…
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Joseph Vernon Turner Jr. pasou á historia co seu nome artístico, Big Joe Turner. Curtido nos garitos de Kansas City desde os anos 20 do século pasado, Turner destacou como intérprete de boogie-woogie e jump blues na época da lei seca, antes de se converter nun dos pioneiros do rock and roll. A Lista Negra estrea a súa segunda temporada da man de Bi…
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Charles Brown foi un cantante e pianista de estilo pulcro, elegante, sosegado, que acadou un éxito considerable trala Segunda Guerra Mundial e, tras un prolongado retiro, gozou dunha última etapa de recoñecemento catro décadas máis tarde. A súa foi sempre unha aposta polo blues refinado, nas antípodas dos rudos bluesmen que emigraron a Chicago desd…
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Hudson Woodbridge, alias Tampa Red, foi un dos pioneiros do blues de Chicago e un mestre do slide do que aprenderon outras figuras posteriores como Big Bill Broonzy ou Elmore James entre outros. Tampa Red coñeceu o éxito e o esquecemento máis absoluto. Neste episodio tamén escoitaremos blues galego da man do harmonicista compostelán Marcos Coll.…
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Samuel Maghett, alias Magic Sam é un guitarrista esencial na historia do blues. Malia que morreu moi novo, con só 32 anos, e que a súa carreira profesional apenas durou unha década, o alcumado Rei do Trémolo deixou unha pegada imborrable e asinou algúns elepés que deben formar parte de calquera antoloxía do xénero. Sam foi un músico efervescente, a…
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Referente cultural absoluto do último século, premio Nobel de Litertura, estandarte da contracultura, Óscar á mellor canción, revolución nun só home e artista alérxico ás etiquetas, Robert Allen Zimmerman tamén é un dos bluesmen brancos máis lonxevos e senlleiros. De feito, leva tocando o xénero que nos ocupa desde o inicio da súa carreira ata o dí…
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Como tantos outros, Herman Junior Parker fixo a viaxe desde Mississippi a Chicago. Parker teceu unha ponte do blues ao soul Gran cantante e notable harmonicista, a súa sona non lle fai xustiza ao seu legado. Junior Parker facía moitas cousas e todas ben. Tamén habemos buscar tempo para escoitar os galegos Hermanos Zapruder.…
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Meribethe Ingram v. Jared ReganoBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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L W v. Jonathan SkrmettiBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
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In this 2014 episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Betty Medsger. Medsger was a Washington Post reporter in March 1971, and received a cache of stolen FBI files that detailed the elaborate surveillance activities the bureau was using against Vietnam war protesters and others whom J. Edgar Hoover deemed “subversive.“ All Medsger knew abou…
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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In this episode from the Institute’s Vault we hear from Rebecca Goldstein, an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her first book was her 1983 novel, The Mind Body Problem. Goldstein spoke to the Institu…
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Eleanor Canter v. Disability NetworkBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Jerry Lawler v. Hardeman County TNBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
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Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (FSG, 2019). Lemann spoke at the Institute about Transaction Man in 2019. Over the last generation, the United States h…
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Jill Hile v. MichiganBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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In 2006, Jennifer Michael Hecht spoke to the Institute about her book, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong. Hecht is a poet and historian, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of science/European cultural history from Columbia University. She has published four books of nonfiction and three books of poetry. She has taught in the MFA…
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Donald Freed v. Michelle ThomasBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Ian Buruma on "Year Zero: A History of 1945"
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Ian Buruma is the author, co-author and editor of over a dozen books. He has been an editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review and The New York Review of Books. In this talk, he discusses Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Penguin, 2014). Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had e…
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In April 2014, David Bromwich spoke at the Institute about his forthcoming book, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (Harvard UP, 2014). Bromwich is a professor of English at Yale University, and the author of studies of Hazlitt and Wordsworth. While Edmund Burke is commonly seen as the fat…
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Chelsey Nelson Photography LLC v. Louisville Jefferson Co KY
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Chelsey Nelson Photography LLC v. Louisville Jefferson Co KYBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Eric Thomas v. Sherry BurtBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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United States v. Michael Terry JrBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Travelers Property Casualty Co of America v. Amerisure Ins Co
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Travelers Property Casualty Co of America v. Amerisure Ins CoBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Jeffrey Hughes v. Zane DuncanBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Joseph Mattingly v. RJ Corman Railroad Group LLC
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Joseph Mattingly v. RJ Corman Railroad Group LLCBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Richard Campfield v. Safelite Group IncBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Delante Lunn v. United StatesBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Hattie Tanner v. David WaltersBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Joshua Jarrett v. USABy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Joseph Johnson v. Clair SootsmanBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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United States v. Sterling RobertsBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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FemHealth USA Inc v. Rickey Williams JrBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Teamsters LCL 237 Welfare Fund v. ServiceMaster Global Holdings
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Teamsters LCL 237 Welfare Fund v. ServiceMaster Global HoldingsBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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